The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-18
WAKE UP!
And Secure for Utah What Belongs
to Her.


large army of wealthy invalids, an army
that seems to be on the increase, too,
and one that goes moaning up and
down over the land seeking health and
finding none. Everywhere you go,
where location and climate have any
thing to offer or healing waters contain
ing anything aught of good to assist ma
ture in her struggle to lengthen out the
days of those who have more ducats
than digestion, you will see the anxious
eve and the hating gait of those who
crowned with victory and misery, ind
themselves in the great national hospi-
tai that moves about from Moosehead
Lake to Tacoma, to Los Angeles, to
Jacksonville, to Duluth, to Denver, to
Asheville, to Minnetonka, to Santa Fe,
to the Hot Springs and the Cold
Springs, to the Iron Springs and the
Soda Springs, to the dry air OF the
mountains and the wet air of the sea,
with no home that they can call perma-
nent and noeure thing for the future.
but will contest and the long, starless
night of death"
The above, taken from the New York
Tribune, is too-true statement OF the
movements of the vast army of Ameri-
can inyalids. The feeble, the hypochon-
driac, the WORKOUT and rundown, of
both sexes, are drawn hither and yon
by enticing and allurlng advertisements
of energetic and wide.awake pr0prietors
of health resorts. They are induced to
make long trips to and lengthy stays at
the different rendezvous where life CIV
ing draughts are quaffed and invigorat-
ing air is breathed. They are some
times benefited by the visits but oftener
return to their metropolitan homes,
poorer in pocket and unimproved SAINT
arily. Such people, as a rule, are well
blessed with this worlds good, are will
ing to part with their substance to Sc
cure relief from pains, aches and tore
lures, and frequently offer pre- miums for
that which will change their misery to
happiness.
| There is vast class of this descrip
| ton in America, and it is one which is
yearly growing. There are those who
are included in its makeup who have
undoubtedly, never heard Of the numer.
Gus superior health. promoting resources
of Utah, and many who probably never
will; they certainly never will if no eff
fort is made by the proprietors, or those
best interested, in the Territory's SAINT
ariums to inform them. How many oil
the thousands who make annual anC
semi-annual pilgrimages to the place:
mentioned in the brief excerpt above
have heard of Utah g advantages, in hel
Great Salt Lake, her Warm Springs, hel
Hot Springs, (near the metropolis anC
north of Ogden or the Soda Springs, II
Idaho? The number is very small
Among the great many places on the
eastern and western slopes and interior
OF the contlne MT. there is no superior in
ducement TO those just mentioned. Blu
at. most OF them facilities for the &C
commodation and entertainment of visi
tors are lacking. tits true at the bath,
ing resorts On the shores of the lake i'm
proVemepts are being perfected which
will render those places much more de-
sirable than hitherto, and the numbe
OF tourists will increase as those fact
become known. At the springs named
the surroundings are uninviting, tt
accommodations are meagre for 1arg
parties, and general shiftlessness is ap
parent in their management.
} With a very limited investment G
capital these Stun bling blocks to tn
spread OF the fame of Utah's health-giy
ing possessions may be removed, anG
once removed, there would be little diff
Guilty in maintaining popularity. Pu
the resorts in order. Make them entic
ing to the invalids. Make known thei
superior qualities and keep their virtue
before the health seeking world, and th
future of the Territory will be great
enhanced by so doing.